Arbeitspapier

The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants

This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants’ prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then analyze how these components were affected by reductions in Mexican output tariffs, intermediate input tariffs, and U.S. tariffs. We find that declines in these tariffs led to significant reductions in the marginal costs of Mexican products. However, prices of exported goods slightly increased as exporters increased their markups in response to declines in U.S. tariffs.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7700

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kikkawa, Ayuma Ken
Mei, Yuan
Santamarina, Pablo Robles
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kikkawa, Ayuma Ken
  • Mei, Yuan
  • Santamarina, Pablo Robles
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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